[Yanel-dev] Toolbar implementation

[Josias Thöny]

Michael Wechner wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have implemented a prototype of the toolbar, whereas it's currently 
> using an iframe, but this results in a long tail
> of problems, so I think we rather use CSS and aggregate this on "top" of 
> the actual content.

Could you name the problems you encountered (just to have them kind of 
documented)?

> 
> This has the drawback, that one cannot write directly into the response 
> from within a resource, at least not for data with the mime-type "html" 
> which shall be toolbar enabled. Technically speaking one checks on the 
> method "View.isResponse()".
> 
> Please let me know if you see other consequences.

This would also mean that the toolbar cannot be displayed for binary 
resources like e.g. images. Right?

Josias

> 
> Thanks
> 
> Michi
>